Information Processing Laboratory

Information Retrieval Research Group

WIDTH Workshop, Athens15-16 July 2013

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The Information Retrieval and Management Research Group is part of the Information Processing Laboratory directed by professor Theodore Kalamboukis.

The group supports basic and applied research in the field of information retrieval from large textural databases through R&D projects. Also, contributes to the educational activities of the informatics program both on undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

Antonia Kyriakopoulou, Theodore Kalamboukis, Clustering as a prior step to classification: an empirical study, to be published to the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 20(3): 531-548 (2011).

MedAS: Medical Assistance System: Cross Language Information and Image Retrieval for Diagnosis, General Secretariat of Research and Technology, 2006-2008.

PENED 2003, Combined research in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing, and user modeling aiming at the development of advanced search engines for document collections" (2006-08). General Secretariat of Research and Technology.

CLEF 2011
Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation
19-22 September 2011, Amsterdam
The IPL group consisted from the students Yiannis Gkoufas and Anna Morou under the supervision of Prof. T. Kalamboukis were the winners of the CLEF 2011 Ad Hoc Medical Image Retrieval Task.More »

Laboratory's participation to ECML/PKDD 2008 Challenge, for Spam Detection in Social Bookmarking Systems.
The PhD candidate Anestis Gkanogiannis was the winner of the challenge this year.More
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6 August 2008, Visit of Professor Efthimis Efthimiadis, University of Washington,
at the Information Processing Laboratory /Information Retrieval Group.

Laboratory's contribution to KDD (Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining) challenge 2008: Early detection of breast cancer.
Out of over 200 submissions, the laboratory's contributions were ranked 57th and 67th respectively.
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